5. PHONEMES
• Phonemes refers to the smallest segmental unit of
speech that distinguishes meaningful words.
• Phonemes are the smallest units comprising spoken
language. It combines to form syllables and words.
• A phoneme may have more than one variant, called an
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single sound
8. MORPHEMES
• Morphemes are comprised of two separate classes called
(a) bases (or roots) and (b) affixes.
A “base,” or “root,” is a morpheme in a word that gives the
word its principle meaning.
• In English grammar and morphology, a morpheme is a
meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word such as
dog, or a word element, such as the –s at the end of dogs,
that can’t be divided into smaller meaning parts.
• The smallest units of meaning in a language. They are
commonly classified as either free morphemes, which
can occur as separate words or bound morphemes,
which can’t stand alone as words.
11. SYNTAX
• Syntax is the order or arrangement of
words and phrases to form proper
sentences. The most basic syntax
follows a subject + verb + direct
object formula. That is, “ jillian hit
the ball.” syntax allows us to
understand that we wouldn’t write,
“Hit jillian the ball.” or syntax is the
grammatical structure of sentences.
The format in which words and
phrases are arranged to create
sentences is called syntax.
“The boy ran hurriedly,”
reads differently than,
“hurriedly, the boy ran.”
the difference may be
slight, but the syntax in
each sentence conveys a
different meaning and,
perhaps, a different
mental image.
EXAMPLE;
13. PRAGMATICS
• Pragmatics is the study of how context affects meaning, such
as how sentences are interpreted in certain situations (or the
interpretation of linguistic meaning in context) the study of
these contextual factors and the way they create meaning is
called pragmatics.
pragmatics falls under the broader field of linguistics, which is
the scientific study of how language woks and how people use
it.
The definition of pragmatic language is language that can only
be understood in terms of aspects of the situation in which it
used.
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EXAMPLE;
1. Will you crack open the door? I am getting hot.
- Semantically, the word “crack” would mean to break, but pragmatically we
know that the speaker means to open the door just a little to let in some
air.
2. I heart you!
- Semantically, “heart” refers to an organ in our body that pumps blood and
keeps us alive. However, pragmatically, “heart” in this sentence means
“love”-hearts are commonly used as a symbol for love, and to “heart”
someone has come to mean that you love someone.
3. If you eat all of that food, it will make you bigger!
- Semantically “bigger” in this sentence would mean larger than you are
currently. Think about how this sentence, pragmatically, would mean
something different depending on the context. If it is said to a young child,
pragmatically, it would mean to grow bigger. If it is said to a grown person
who is already obese, it would mean something entirely different.
16. SEMANTICS
this is the area of meaning. It might
be thought that semantics is covered
by the areas of morphology and
syntax. But it is quickly seen that
this level needs to be studied on its
own to have a proper perspective on
meaning in language.
Here are touches, however, on
practically every other level of
language as well as there exist
lexical grammatical, sentence and
utterance meaning.
EXAMPLE;
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18. GROUP 4;
ELLA MAY CATIPUN
CRISTY DONATO
JOVEN LOPEZ
RENALYN MOLINA
LYKA JOY ALISLA
JENNY ANN ALMONTE
MELODY LOPEZ